Rex Heuermann is sentenced to life in prison for New York’s Gilgo Beach serial killings
Heuermann admitted killing eight women, and investigators said DNA, cellphone data and a discarded pizza crust helped solve the cold case.
- On Wednesday, New York architect Rex Heuermann was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering eight women, concluding an extraordinary investigation into the Gilgo Beach serial killings.
- Heuermann discreetly murdered victims for at least 17 years until 2022, when detectives linked him to a pickup truck and matched DNA from a discarded pizza crust to hair on remains.
- Confronting Heuermann in court, Amanda Funderburg, sister of victim Melissa Barthelemy, told him, "I hope you suffer," while cousin Jasmine Robinson said, "You fill me with so much repugnance."
- As part of his guilty plea, Heuermann agreed to cooperate with the FBI behavioral analysis unit to help catch other serial killers after spending three years in segregated custody.
- Most victims disappeared between 2000 and 2010, with remains found along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach; Melissa Cann, sister of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, described carrying "survivor's guilt" for decades.
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The serial killer of Gilgo Beach, New York, Rex Heuermann, was sentenced on Wednesday by a judge to three additional life sentences and 100 years of imprisonment after admitting to having killed eight women over nearly two decades, in what is the final stitch to a case that has shocked the United States. Heuermann, 62, finally admitted in April his guilt on seven counts of murder that were charged to him and also pleaded responsible for an eight…
For years the "Long Island Killer" chased his victims. Now Rex Heuermann was sentenced to life imprisonment. In court the relatives of the killed women reckoned with him.
'A million years isn’t enough': Victims' relatives confront Gilgo Beach serial killer at sentencing
A Long Island architect who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer has been sentenced to to life in prison without parole. Rex Heuermann had previously admitted in court to killing eight women, many of them sex…
The American serial killer Rex Heuermann, who murdered at least eight women, was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on Wednesday.
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